NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, 2019

NOAA NCEI Accession 0208357 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, collected in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from November 30 to December 4, 2019. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and moisture exchange based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and ocean currents based on logged navigational data.
• Studying short-term oceanographic variability in a specific region based on physical data collected over a 5-day cruise.

Strengths

• Data collected from a dedicated NOAA research vessel, the Okeanos Explorer.
• Covers a specific 5-day time range from 2019-11-30 to 2019-12-04.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-12-04; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS), submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-11-30 to 2019-12-04

Freshness

Last updated 2019-12-04 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean